I have learned by some experience,
by many examples,
and by the writings of countless others before me,
also occupied in the search,
that certain environments,
certain modes of life,
certain rules of conduct
are more conducive
to inner and outer harmony than others.
There are, in fact, certain roads
that one may follow.
Simplification of life is one of them.♦

(Original is written in prose. Ann Morrow Lindbergh; Source: Gift from the Sea)